Eat To Your Meter Forum Priest to administer last rites ?

Hi Folks, having been accused in the past of bringing the diabetes.co.uk forum to its knees, destroying the lowcarb forum and causing everything from global warming to the price of fish, I thought I would give the ETYM forum a break. The last thing I wanted was to see the place fail, but it’s on life support and fading fast ! As Al Pacino said in the Godfather" just when I thought I was out, they drag me back in". So, what took me back to the place today and had me posting ? Regardless of what you may think I am loyal to my friends and people who have helped me. A forum mod and very nice person who has supported me in the past was getting some stick. I could not let it go without comment. While I was writing my post the thread concerned was locked, so I started another thread called Thread locking, it stayed on the forum for three minutes, then swiftly disappeared. No surprise there, other posts I have made went the same way, hence I very rarely post these days. The screen shot I took at the time below is small but said the following.

Hi Blinkered

I agree 100% with you. Looking at the forum recently it looked no more than a directory of personal blogs. Perhaps that is why the forum has failed to attract a meaningful amount of new members. So many of the early members have long gone (including board members) and checking out the last members list pages, many names are clearly spoofs.

This forum is going nowhere fast, a great shame, at the start many great members joined. It could have been a fantastic resource, but as I said some time ago, it rapidly became a cakes and commiserations outfit. As a social club great, but it could have been so much more. I made a lot of noise six months ago and was told just wait and see, we know what we are doing. Maybe not !

Good luck and health to all.

Eddie

So, what happened to the total honesty promised at the start of the forum “the total transparency to the members” remember some of the owners complained bitterly about the strong arm tactics used at diabetes.co.uk. The thread locking, the deletion of members posts, the disappearance of threads, the banning of lowcarbers, including some of the ETYM board members.. A mod said this today “I removed this thread along with another which has also been restored, so I could take advice” advice from who ? Father Xmas, the Pope, maybe the Lawyers ? The ETYM forum is no better than diabetes.co.uk at it’s worse. Ego tripping mods being sucked up to by a bunch of toadies, talking about cats and Kentucky fried chicken binges. Let’s be honest who would start a diabetes forum or blog and not include diabetes or diabetic in the title ? That is a point I made at the start of the forum and was told we know what we are doing, just wait and see, well I have seen and the post I made at ETYM today stands valid.

Remove around a dozen members and 90% of the posts made over the last three months or more would not have been made. Am I pissed off ? Yes I am ! With the talent and experience the early members had it could have been the best diabetes forum in the UK, not the largest but the best. Most of the stars have gone, and who can blame them. While the forum is run as an ego trip for a few board members nothing will change. Just like Kens defunct forum, history is repeating itself, but even Ken had the grey matter to include diabetes in the forum name. For the ETYM to be successful big changes need to be made, if the aim is to be a cakes and commiserations club, well I guess you’ve cracked it.

Eddie

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